[Dovecot] separate partition for index/uidlist

Daniel leva at az.isten.hu
Sun Mar 11 21:07:56 EET 2007


2007. March 11. 19:39, Timo Sirainen:
> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 19:17 +0100, Daniel wrote:
> > If I have the mail_chroot config parameter set to some dir in the
> > config file and have the home directories set up with /./ ends in
> > the userdb file, do I have to create the directory which holds the
> > index/uidlist files under that chroot dir? Now it seems dovecot can
> > not find the directory which is outside of the chroot (I thought
> > that dovecot opens the index files before it chroots).
>
> No. Each mailbox has separate index files, so the index files are
> opened when the mailbox is opened. So there's no way to have
> index/control outside chroot.
So is it correct to state that chroot and Quota/FS does not work 
simultaneously? The maildirs/mboxes will always be under the chroot 
directory, so it is impossible to set the directory containing the 
index/uidlist files in a place without quota, if it has to be under the 
chroot.

Daniel


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